Wall construction



Patented Mar. 6, 1923.

Ul-TED STATES WALL CONSTRUCTION.

Application filed March 13, 1920. Serial No. 365,489.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PAUL Dl. WARNER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented new and useful Improvements in Wall Constructions, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to wall construction and has for its primary object the construction of portable wall sections that will withstand transportation from place to place and which may be readily connected together.

An object of the invention is the novel manner of connecting the sections together and detaching and associating the various pipes necessary in a modern building.

With these and other objects in View the invention will be better understood from the following detailed description taken in connection with the accompanying drawing wherein Fig. 1 is a section view illustrating the construction and association of two sections.

Fig. 2 is a detailed view showing how the pipes are associated.

Fig. 3 is a detailed view of a portion of one of the keys.

Fig. l is aperspective view of one of the clamps.

At the start I wish to call attention to the fact that for the sake of clearness, I have only illustrated two sections forming the corner of a building as the sections forming the other portions of the building will be identical with those illustrated with the eX- ception that the outline will be changed to meet artistic requirements.

Again referring to the drawing illustrating one construction of my invention the numerals 1 and 2 designate two sections, which consist of an outer brick portion 3 and an inner cement portion'l. To facilitate the gripping connection between the cement and the bricks I provide a plurality of clamps 5 having one end bent to engage the outer surface of the'bricks and the other end bent to be embedded in the cement. For the purpose of reinforcing the cement portion and thereby allow the sections to be readily transported and assembled I have shown embedded in the cement a reinforcing metallic sheet 6 from which is struck the tongues 7, which engage the cement. Embedded in the cement portion, at spaced intervals, are studs 8 to which is secured a lath sheet 9 of any suitable material and having tongues 10 projecting therefrom embedded in the cement. The various holes adjacent the tongues increase the effective grip between the coating 11 of plaster and the sheet.

To complete the invention each section is provided with a dovetail slot 12 for the reception of double dovetail key 13 so that the sections may be readily connected together. To accomplish a more substantial connection of the vertically arranged sections the pipes 14 in each section have one end tapered as illustrated at 15 so as to be snugly received in the end of the pipe and associated therewith as clearly shown in Fig. 2.

One method of forming each section is to arrange the bricks, clamps, pipes, sheet 6, studs, and core for the slot 12 within a mould and then pour in the cement which effectively binds all the parts together.

It is, of course, to be understood that there are various other manners in which the parts can be associated in binding them together with the cement, and therefore, I do not desire to be limited in any manner except as set forth in the claim hereunto appended.

Having thus described my invention what I claim is:

A wall construction comprising upright 

